[Conclusion] Group Experience

Group Experience:

We worked really well together and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We not only found out what everyone's key skills was, but also how to use that to our advantage or work efficiently and produce something we are proud of.

[Conclusion] My Roles in our Team - What and Why

My Roles in our Team - What and Why:

Organisation:
Even though we had a director, it was very important that someone would take charge and also make sure that we would use our group's abilities to the best that we could. Our group was a very good balance of abilities, everyone having their strong point. In my opinion, one of my general strong points is organisation and leadership. Although I could have been the director, the group decided from the module workshops that I seemed to have the best eye for the creativity and technicality of being the cameraman. I also really enjoyed having that role. Furthermore, I decided that as a cameraman I would be able to help lead our filming days; enough that each scene would have equally the director's, the group's and my input. However, it is fantastic having a director who makes decisions when the group can't make a final decision or to have someone check that everyone is doing their job while actually filming.
I like leading group projects; such as making sure: we meet deadlines, that everyone plays their part in the group, that we don't have anyone not pulling their weight. Furthermore, I had to make sure, after moments of laughter, that we continued working efficiently, stayed on task and that our team always took the project seriously. Filming seemed successful and the balance of fun and seriousness worked perfectly to keep our team working efficiently and enjoying the many hours of concentration.

Directing:
Igor was a really good director. What was also really good is that as the cameraman, I could suggest anything and if it seemed better than the previous idea we would always go with it; and visa vera. Also, I had the final visual decisions, having control of the camera, to make our vision come to life.

Cameraman:
During the filming process our director would give me directions of what was expected for that scene and he would check the digital screen on my camera between most scenes to check that it was what we we envisioned. However, I generally had most of the control when it came to specific composition, panning speed,  and movement. I put my experience of photography into the use of the film camera to create a balanced and visually appealing and balanced shot. I would often take a few minutes to prepare the camera until I was completely satisfied with the small details of the composition; moreover, made sure I was prepared for any tilting, panning or movement needed. I would often ask the actor to walk into the shot before filming so that I could judge how I would need to move the camera so that there wouldn't be any jerky movements while actually filming.

[Conclusion] Editing - Problems We Faced and Solved

Editing - Problems We Faced and Solved:

We decided that our editing team would only need two people; this would allow more efficient decision making and a closer focus on details rather than on new spontaneous ideas being mentioned.
One of the main editing problems was the length of our movie. It was so long that we had to start choosing scenes that did not benefit our plot or flow of our movie. We started off with 12min of clips (including the director saying "action" and "cut") down to 3:30 min.
I really enjoyed being the joint director with Harry during the editing part of the post-production.

[Post-Production] Sometimes Plans Change - Editing - Song Choice

Sometimes Plans Change - Editing - Song Choice:

We originally were going to go for two songs that both had a suspencefull mood. However, once the editor and me viewed our cropped shots we realised that our first song wouldn't work with the vision we had.
We decided to try one of the older favorites (that we originally thought would be too dramatic for our movie). I also mentioned that it may be a cool idea to add the song at the end as well to tie in the beginning with the end of the movie.
The first song will now be:

[Post-Production] Editing

Editing:

As the cameraman I felt it was very important for the group's and my vision to not only be shown in the filming but also in the way the movie was edited and put together. I specifically felt it was very important for me to make sure the editing would enhance the composition, movement and lighting I tried to achieve while helping direct the movie.

[Post-Production] My Vision of how I want our Movie to be Edited

My Vision of how I want our Movie to be Edited:

I am very keen on making our movie seem as dramatic and suspenseful as possible, while not having the music overpower the movie clips. The music should enhance the scenes and be chosen carefully to support that mood that we want to represent.
I quite like the idea of having some scenes that occasionally occur quite quickly so that it increases the drama of our movie.
I know that some of my ideas may change while we edit. We have about 12min of footage and we need to cut it town to at least 3:30min.